Walking on Water

As time goes on, Alex and I are completely emersed in ensuring that we are as prepared as possible for our trek. From two separate countries (her in the UK, me in Australia), we send off multiple emails to each other each day, updating each other on our individual work and findings. Questions we have for each other. Concerns we have for the months to come. Where to send stuff. Who to contact. What research still has to be done. And in doing so, Alex recently came across a video on YouTube.

The two guys in the video were trekking Te Araroa this past season and the video here shows them attempted to get across a river. I do not know who they are. I do not know how long the entire trek took them. I am only assuming they completed Te Araroa as there is a video under their profile labled "The End." Even without all the unknowns, this video clearly gives a taste of some of the stuff Alex and I will have to be dealing with when we get to New Zealand. There may not be bears. There may not be cougars. We may be going together in a team of two and we may have had a variety of experience in trekking to back us up.... but there is still a vaste amount of challenges we will meet along the way. Raging rivers is just one of them.

And in watching this I wonder if we will ever be "ready." Will there ever be a point when we wake up and feel completely prepared for the journey ahead of us? How could we when we have never done such a feat? And yet, even through all the questions and possibility of self-doubt I am completely, totally and utterly excited for what is to come. What we have to do. What we will accomplish.

So soon is our journey and yet it feels just out of reach. The time will come. The time will come when we will start our journey and one day, months later, we will finish it. We will reach our finish line and touch our hands to the well known marker in Bluff.